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In my previous two articles, I talked you through some solutions for handling many-to-many relationships in LINQ-to-SQL. We examined solutions ranging from simple IEnumerable across the junction table, to a fully-fledged IList complete with Add/Insert and Remove/Delete support.

Of course, many-to-many relationships aren't just a problem for ORM. They're a diverse minefield of misunderstanding - and nobody is more at risk of sinking than your users. In this article, I examine some of the different ways that these complex relationships are presented to users.